Born on this day in 1904, Day-Lewis became famous for his poetry and crime novels, and infamous for his split hearts for country and for love. Read More

Anatoly Liberman is racing against his own ticker as he tries to complete his Magnum Opus on finding a home for word "orphans." Read More

Sex, misogyny, slaves, Polish jokes, and even Monty Python: did the Greeks start 1,600 years of bad jokes? Read More

Do you have monsters under the bed? Perhaps you should write it a note. Read More

I dare say that our great-grandmothers and their Flapper slang were just too cool. Even if they might have called me "mustard plaster." Read More

The Scouts of 1911 could kill mad dogs by choking them; they were advised against masturbating; they could lay carpet, fire six arrows into the air at once, and could identify malaria and tuberculosis. They were real lessons in manhood. Read More

Dewlap/Dewlappe, n., Middle English: a fold of skin that hangs loose from the neck. It looks cool on anoles and rabbits, not so cool on the elderly. Read More